<p>where did you find the internship opportunities? Google? or some good websites to recommend?</p>
<p>I really need an internship in Guangzhou.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>zerolife:
I agree with most of your points but not with the pricing thingy. $1000 is definitely not enough to get a good life in Beijing. if you wanna rent a comfortable and nice apartment that’s located in those busy business areas, $1000 is not even enough to pay for the house rent. And even though eating is not that expensive in China, shopping’s not cheap. And they barely have sales as huge as the annual christmas sales in US. So normally if you wanna shop in those fancy or lets say pretty good malls, you can’t really get a lot of clothes unless you bring like $300. Especially you guys all wanna intern in China which means you’re all professionals who don’t wanna look sloppy, so you’ll have to probably consider getting some sorta nice outfits. And those kinds of apparel normally cost somewhere from $200 up to like rediculous prices per suit. So don’t expect to just live an easy happy life with only $1000 a month in Beijing. </p>
<p>To be honest, i would say don’t really dream about enjoying life after work in Beijing unless you make $5000 a month, coz you guys are different from those Chinese who were born and raised there and have already gotten a nice apartment from their parents or live with their parents. But i guess it will still have to depend on how good of the life you want really is.</p>
<p>The salary will def be lower than 1000 USD, I heard interns are normally unpaid over there. But if you’re full time employed you’ll def get more of course.</p>
<p>The dress code is a bit random in China I must agree. Not like here in the west at all. But is just to adapt right.</p>
<p>Well instead of spending months looking online you could also spend 6+ months learning Chinese in the area you want to spend some time and meet the right people… Thats what I did before I went to college and three people have already assured me that anytime I want to work for them just let them know. I know a lot of people in China will say that, but these three people are deadly serious. I am not sure if I will ever take them up on their offer, but if I do I am good to go. But knowing ppl over there will make your life a million times easier if you want to move there… he is right about the schools though. My wife is going to UF journalism school which is one of the best in the country but in China it’s just the best school in the state=not much. But hopefully I will get into Cornell grad school and into the next bracket of schools.</p>
<p>If u work in the Goldman Such or J.P.Morgan,u could just speak English</p>
<p>wow, my friend.</p>
<p>You are incredibly naive in interning in my home country. To find a job in China without a network is like to find a needle in the sea. </p>
<p>If you want to intern in China, you must have a network. My Chinese friends’ family are all big power, government communists back in China. They do not even need to search for an internship, and the job is right there. I do not understand why should any Americans go seek job adventure in China.
I will probably intern in China next summer. My aunt is a regional human resource manager for an international company, and she will hopefully toss me a job with good pay.
But seriously though, why should I work for her when I can earn 100 or so RMB (12 dollar an hour, mind you) per hour by tutoring small kids English? Of course, if you want to do that, you must have a network too. Ha</p>
<p>Thank you for sharing your tips! I don’t want to offence you but it is so hilarious, so funny to read though it. I knew that it must be your true feeling about working in China. I’ve been America for 3 years and I’m doing a co-op right now. Compared with my co-op experience back in China, most of your words are true. However, everything happens for a reason. Think of China’s situation and how fast the economic grows in recent decades, you’ll sort of understand why is soooooo different. Please don’t forget that there are also tons of good things about working in China.</p>
<p>To intern in China for an international student is a totally different experience compared you guys do in the US. But the experience of internship could present the unknown side of story which you could not find if you did not intern in China.</p>
<p>Hello_motto, I like the way of your saying:
Unless your school is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UNC(Basketball) or Duke, chances are, they will not have heard of it and they will automatically group your school as a generic American college with everyone else. </p>
<p>The generic is the best word, ha ha…</p>